It has again come to this. Thursday. The day where hearts are won and lost. The day where two members from each district are forced to battle to the death. The day of the Vergecast. As decreed by The Capitol we are broadcasting live, tonight, at 7pm EST. As is customary the embed is waiting...
The world will be watching
We'd heard the Nokia Lumia 900 was set to go on sale April 8th, and now it looks like you can circle that date on your calendar with something a little more permanent: according to WPCentral, the flagship handset will be available online beginning...
The high-resolution on Apple's new iPad is a perfect way to show off Rdio's new graphics-heavy redesign, so the company wasted little time updating its app with Retina-ready album art and app graphics. Version 1.3.6 will cost you 5.6MB of storage space, which isn't so bad given what we've heard about app sizes increasing as graphics are updated, and it's available now for the iPad, iPhone, and...
Facebook is no stranger to harsh critiques of its privacy policies, and the company is now preparing to institute a range of changes to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities in an effort to make its "practices and policies more clear." To begin with, the company's privacy policy is now being renamed its "Data Use Policy," perhaps better reflecting Facebook's shift from a single website to a platform unto itself. Other changes include clearer descriptions of some behaviors users may not be so pleased with, such as how your information is shared with Facebook apps: if one of your friends installs an app, that app will be able to access any information you're sharing with said friend, whether you've approved it directly or not. On the plus side, Facebook has also specified that any services wanting to collect Facebook data must ask...
Facebook tries its hand at transparency
We've seen plenty of action cameras — there's the GoPro Hero2, the Roam, the Freestyle HD, and the WingmanHD, to name a few — but the CamOne Infinity offers something a bit different. The 5-megapixel camera supports 1080p video at 30fps and 720p at 60fps, but what's unique is that it has an interchangeable lens system. The mount isn't sophisticated — it's more like a screw than a camera...
More Philips-head, less camera mount
AT&T has announced official availability of an update to Android 4.0 for its HTC Vivid today, the first such ICS update available on any phone sold in the US. Though you could manually perform the update last week — which we did — the new software is just now being actively pushed out to subscribers. The carrier notes that this upgrade will get you first- and third-party app support for B...
If the $7,995 price tag of the Leica M9-P wasn't expensive enough for you, there's now a white variant that will cost a whopping $31,695 — but good luck finding one. Even if you're one of the lucky few able to afford one, only 50 will actually be released into the wild, making the white M9-P the white whale of the camera world. Aside from the limited color scheme and inflated price, the camera itself looks to be largely the same as the standard M9-P. This means that it will feature the same minimalist design as its more common black counterpart that notably omits Leica's iconic red dot....
The US Department of Justice has sued AT&T over claims that it purposefully violated registration requirements for use of IP Relay — a service that allows the hearing impaired to place calls over the internet by typing messages — and collected millions of dollars from the government for fraudulent calls. The US says that fraudulent calls accounted for 95-percent of AT&T's IP Relay calls since November 2009, and that the company received federal reimbursement to the tune of $1.30 per minute for every call on this system. AP reports that the DOJ's actions follow a "private whistleblower" lawsuit filed in 2010 by Constance Lyttle, a...
T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm has sent a memo to his employees today announcing the net elimination of around 1,900 jobs nationwide, primarily resulting from the closure of seven call center facilities located in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Frisco, Texas; Brownsville, Texas; Lenexa, Kansas; Thornton, Colorado; and Redmond, Oregon. In reality, though, more staff will be affected than that — 3,300 positions are being...
"Looking ahead, we will also be restructuring other parts of the company." Philipp Humm, T-Mobile
A new vulnerability has been revealed for Safari in iOS 5.1 which makes is possible to put a spoof URL in the address bar to trick users into visiting a potentially dangerous site. According to Major Security, the issue is due to an error with how Safari deals with handling URLs using javascript....
If you've been waiting for the high-end Canon EOS 5D Mark III full-frame DSLR to hit stores, now might be your chance. We haven't been able to find the $3,499 camera body alone in stock anywhere, but both B&H and Adorama have the Mark III kit — which includes an EF 24-105mm F/4 L lens — on...
Way back in September of last year, Toshiba introduced its FlashAir SDHC card that can generate its own 802.11 b/g/n network, which allows Wi-Fi devices to easily browse and download files directly from the card. FlashAir SD cards went on sale in...
Google has updated Google Voice for Android to integrate with the Android 4.0 dialer, allowing users to view and listen to their Google Voice voicemail in their standard call log. It's the first implementation of visual voicemail we've seen that's based on the ICS API, which...
The golfers among you may have noticed that the MotoACTV activity tracking watch doesn't have a golf mode — even after an update earlier this month that added support for 40 new sports and exercises. Now we know why Motorola has been holding back — the company has just announced the MotoACTV...
The US Senate has just passed a bill that would legalize "crowdfunding" for small businesses. The CROWDFUND Act, an amendment to the JOBS Act bundle that was approved 73 to 26, lowers barriers for investment in companies that haven't yet gone public. That means that new companies — ideally, the next Google or Facebook — could be funded by small donations from the general public, either through a licensed...
Since the release of the new iPad with LTE support for AT&T and Verizon, it seems all but certain that Apple will bring true 4G to the next iPhone as well. Indeed, there have been several rumors to that effect in recent months, and we're getting...
A law passed in Israel this week requires publications to note when an image has been edited to make a model appear thinner, and also bans models deemed as underweight from appearing in advertisements. It's not yet clear how exactly this law will be enforced, as proving that a well-photoshopped...
A new deal with in-flight Wi-Fi provider Gogo will see US Airways expand the service to 90 percent of its domestic mainline fleet. Wi-Fi will be...
In an interview with Wired, Linus Torvalds said that around 2000, Steve Jobs offered him a place at Apple working on its Unix-based kernel. "Unix for the biggest user base: that was the pitch,"...
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, Fable Heroes and more are coming to Xbox Live Arcade as part of a month-long "Arcade Next" promotion starting next month, Microsoft has announced. A new, high-profile...
Combining the best aspects of E Ink and LCD, while still being flexible, Liquavista's electrowetting display (EWD) technology has been eagerly awaited for some time, especially since Samsung...
Right on schedule, US Cellular has just released its first LTE-capable device, the venerable Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. This tablet has been a long time coming: we first heard of US Cellular's plans...
Today, Facebook is announcing a few big updates to its photo viewer: it will now display photos in high resolution by default, and will allow you...
We were teased with a video of Android 4.0 running on a Nokia N9 last month, and now an unofficial public alpha release of the OS for the N9 is available over at NITDroid. The 3.9-inch handset is a good match for ICS considering its lack of capacitive front buttons and its enduring style, which inspired the slick design of the Lumia 800 and 900. Except for some of the sensors, Wi-Fi, and the...
TweetDeck version 1.0 took away a lot of features that longtime users relied on when it was released back in December, but a brand-new update has made the app a bit more robust. Verison 1.3 was just released, and it brings list management, activity and interactions tabs, inline image and video...
